In the article "Liberal Praises" in No. 6 of the *Nevskaya Gazeta*, comrade L. M. wishes to prove that the bourgeoisie praises the right S.D.s as true S.D.s, and berates the left S.D.s as anarchists. The bourgeoisie, it is said, is especially fearful of anarchism as a crude form of struggle—bombs and the like.

This view is a direct mockery of the truth.

Is it possible that comrade L. M. does not know that the Bernsteinians in Germany, the Millerandists{47} in France, were praised by the bourgeoisie precisely for their opportunism, for their blunting of contradictions in acute struggle? Has L. M. "become so clever" that he is inclined to consider the Bernsteinians and Millerandists as true S.D.s?

Or let comrade L. M. think at least about the attitude of Russian liberal bourgeoisie toward Narodnaya Volya and SR terrorism until recently and toward the December forms of struggle now. After all, the liberal bourgeoisie praised the SRs more than the S.D.s when terror was directed against the autocracy that it itself despised. Is that not so, comrade L. M.? And what do you think, comrade L. M., would the liberal bourgeoisie have praised the right S.D.s if they had abandoned their present position and adopted the standpoint of pure parliamentarism? And how then, comrade L. M., would you say that the liberal bourgeoisie simply fails to understand that pure parliamentarism of the S.D.s at the present moment is far more harmful to it and far more useful to the proletariat than the present position of the right S.D.s?

*Volna* No. 12, May 9, 1906

Published according to the text of the newspaper *Volna*